What if we can make process of developing site with Mediawiki more consistent?

The idea and goal of that proposition is to give mediawiki users and developers tool to help them in managing mediawiki contents and structure. Program which can represent mediawiki contents (pages, categories, templates, etc) in OS native format: files and folders mounted as local driver (virtual file system) and easily can be viewed and edited with any text editor[1] or IDE[2]. Also, this way (virtual file system) have a lot of other very interesting ways to use.

Main goal of this project is to make possible great idea of Mediawiki IDE, with syntax highlighting and autocompletion. Very simple and effective way to create new wikis and manage existing ones.

Main step in this idea realization is to create tool named MediawikiFS which can represent mediawiki site content as file system with ability to manipulate mediawiki contents (pages) like files and folders. Mediawiki pages can be attached as virtual disk and viewed/edited/created/deleted from any IDE, any favorite text editor.

Such combination of MediawikiFS concept and Mediawiki IDE will provide cool advantages:

Simple overview over wiki contents.

Browse your wiki pages like folders and files.

Edit pages with syntax highlight and autocompletion.

Export pages from one wiki and import to another with simple drag&drop.

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This sounds like a great idea. MediaWiki pages as flat files would make them far more accessible for external editing, and if other features you plan for are implemented, I think this program has a lot of potential. Arcane21 (talk) 01:03, 21 September 2013 (UTC)Arcane21

This would make for much more efficient editing and management of a wiki (or groups of wikis). --Rob Kam (talk) 12:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)